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Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Fiji Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, currently the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, commenced his professional career in 1971. He stated with a humble beginning as a Management Trainee at the New Zealand Insurance company for five years. In the subsequent 10 year period till 1987, Minister Kubuabola […]

Professor of Climate Change, Pacific Center for Environment and Sustainable Development, University of the South Pacific, Suva Professor Elisabeth Holland has been curious about the world ever since she can remember. Early in her childhood, a love of nature and how things work were the seeds she nurtured throughout her life and led her to […]

A Fijian serving Civil Society Organisations for fifty-one years. In the 60s and 80s established the Methodist Lay Training Centre in Davuilevu, served as a General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches as well as the sub unit on the Education of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, 1982 – 1991. Upon […]

Regional Director for International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Suva A Tongan native, Kami grew up in Papua New Guinea and graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Technology of PNG. He completed MBA in marketing/eCommerce as a Fulbright scholar at Vanderbilt University. Kami has worked with the United Nations in New […]

Chairman, Fiji Airways Board of Directors, Suva Nalin Patel is the Managing Partner of G. Lal +Co., Chartered Accountants. He has extensive knowledge in professional services with over 38 years of experience gained internationally and locally in all facets of Accounting Practice and Business Advisory Services, working with a diverse range of international and local […]

Dr. Gerard Finin is resident co-director of East-West Center’s Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP). He conducts research on contemporary social and economic issues in the Pacific islands region, with ongoing projects focusing on governance and globalization. Finin is also engaged in research and teaching related to the Philippines, particularly northern Luzon. His areas of interest […]

Kaliopate Tavola worked for 11 years as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Forests, rising to the rank of Chief Economist. He joined Fiji Sugar Marketing Co Ltd, and represented that company for 4 years in London and continued to do company work in Brussels for 3 years. During that period, […]